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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: 

 I am pleased to be here today to discuss the Small Business 

 Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business 

 Technology Transfer (STTR) pilot program at the Department of 

 Energy (DOE) . 



Over the twelve years of its existence, the SBIR program has 

 matured significantly. We have issued fourteen Phase I 

 solicitations, reviewed approximately 16,720 proposals, and 

 selected for funding over 1,780 Phase I projects and over 640 

 Phase II projects. Each year we have issued the solicitation on 

 schedule, met every deadline for the selection of both Phase I 

 and Phase II awards, and published books of abstracts of our 

 Phase I and Phase II projects. Our SBIR budget for Fiscal Year 

 1995 is $70 million. 



The quality of the research selected for awards has remained very 

 high. We are very pleased that eleven of our projects have 

 received R&D-IOO Awards from Research and Development Magazine, 

 which selects the 100 most significant technical products each 

 year. 



Many companies with Phase II awards have made great strides 

 toward commercializing the results of their research. The DOE 

 has collected numerous examples of Phase III success and has 

 implemented a special program to assist awardees with 

 commercialization. 



